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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. English as a second language






2. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






3. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






4. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






5. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






6. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






7. Final stable syllable

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8. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






9. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






10. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






11. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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12. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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13. State Board of Eduation






14. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






15. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






16. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






18. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






19. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






20. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






21. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






22. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






23. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






24. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






25. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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26. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






27. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






28. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






29. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






30. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






31. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






32. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






33. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






34. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






35. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






36. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






37. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






38. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






39. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






40. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






41. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






43. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






44. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






45. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






46. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






47. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






48. Closed syllable






49. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






50. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






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